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2 Yeates 482

Jeffries v. Thompson

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided December 15, 1799

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · decided 1799-12-15

Capias debt. Bail marked in 50001. Mr. M. Levy moved that the defendant should be discharged on common bail. He admitted, that the defendant was indebted to the plaintiff in a considerable sum, hut showed an exemplification of a law of Maryland, passed on the 10th January 1799, for the relief of divers insolvent debtors by name, amongest whom was the defendant.

Decided 1799-12-15

But by the court.

¶1Both plaintiff and defendant being acknowledged citizens of Maryland, when the law in question passed, must be bound thereby, having consented thereto, either by themselves or their representatives. As to them, there can be no doubt of its binding force. The present case is precisely the same in principle as that of Harris v. Mandeville before cited. The lex loci is peculiarly applicable thereto. It would be highly mischievous, as well as incongruous, that when a debtor has been discharged from his imprisonment by the laws of his« own state, a fellow citizen shall follow him to other parts of the union, and there arrest him again by new process.

¶2The defendant must be discharged on common bail.

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